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Ruthie Blum, a former adviser at the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is an award-winning columnist and a senior contributing editor at JNS. Co-host with Ambassador Mark Regev of the JNS-TV podcast “Israel Undiplomatic,” she writes on Israeli politics and U.S.-Israel relations. Originally from New York City, she moved to Israel in 1977. She is a regular guest on national and international media outlets, including Fox, Sky News, i24News, Scripps, ILTV, WION and Newsmax.

The score of Yair Golan’s latest campaign clip is music that freed hostage Rom Braslavski’s terrorist captors in Gaza listened to as regularly as they tortured him.
Mali and Liel Yahalomi decided to ditch their lives in Israel. But why did they have to engage the whole concerned country in their deception?
Israelis ought to heed Abe Greenwald’s warning that “naming and shaming the big, glaring, awful thing that defines one’s opponent doesn’t have the persuasive power we’d like to think.”
Eyal Megged, Ronen Tzur and Dan Shilon can’t explain the source of their hatred for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, so they attack interviewer Sharon Gal and i24News.
All electoral surveys should be taken with a grain of cynicism, especially those presented as some kind of gold standard for showing a left-wing victory.
Rabbi Yigal Levinstein traces a national awakening from the battlefield to the halls of power and explains what Israel must demand of itself.